H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

Author: Laird R. Blackwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-07-07

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1476629587

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H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey's classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.

H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

Author: Laird R. Blackwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1476670692

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H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey's classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.

Call Mr. Fortune
Call Mr. Fortune

Author: H.C. Bailey

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2019-01-26

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1479449067

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This collection of six classic stories introduces Reggie Fortune, a country doctor with a passion for sweets -- and a lackluster work ethic. But Reggie may have found his true calling when he stumbles into mysteries!

Bodies from the Library 4
Bodies from the Library 4

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0008380988

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This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand.

Doctor-Detectives in the Mystery Novel
Doctor-Detectives in the Mystery Novel

Author: Howard Brody

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2021-01-18

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1527564800

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This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel—the use of a physician as the major detective. There is little difference between a medical “case study” and a mystery story. The book reviews the works of major authors, from R. Austin Freeman, Helen McCloy, Josephine Bell, and H.C. Bailey, to Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Aaron Elkins, and Colin Cotterill, with briefer reviews of minor authors. It also addresses historical (fictional) physician detectives, psychological detectives, and physician detective nonfiction. Physicians and health workers are avid readers of detective fiction and will welcome this volume, which addresses their specific interests. Its critical analysis of books that have long been viewed as central to detective fiction will also appeal to fans of the mystery story.

Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story
Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story

Author: Laird R. Blackwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1476635617

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Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century, after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Melville Davisson Post, and other Old Masters of the genre. This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen's role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers, characters and stories EQMM championed are covered, including such celebrated authors as Allingham, Ambler, Ellin, Innes, Vickers, and even William Butler Yeats.

Twelve Englishmen of Mystery
Twelve Englishmen of Mystery

Author: Earl F. Bargainnier

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780879722500

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There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments and for their comments on the society in which they were published, in the last 150 years, but who have not received any critical comment lately. This volume is designed to correct that fault in a dozen of those unjustifiably neglected British authors: Wilkie Collins, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton, H.C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Nicholas Blake, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Dick Francis, Edmund Crispin, H.R.F. Keating, and Simon Brett.

The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction
The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction

Author: Laird R. Blackwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1476681287

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Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the detective story. This book is the first extensive study of the fantastic in detective fiction and it explores the highly debated question of whether detective fiction and the fantastic can comfortably coexist. The "locked room" mystery--which often uses the fantastic as a red herring to eventually be debunked by reason and logic--has long been among the most popular subgenres of detective fiction. This book also explores stories featuring almost supernaturally gifted detectives, stories where the supernatural is truly encountered, and stories with ambiguous endings. Close to 500 detective stories from 1841 to 2000, in which the fantastic or supernatural plays a central role, are discussed and analyzed. Although not all the stories are judged to be successful as detective tales, in the great majority, the fantastic enlivens the tale and deepens the mystery without weakening the detective elements.

Clues from the Couch
Clues from the Couch

Author: Laird R. Blackwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1476688370

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The detective story--the classic whodunit with its time-displacement structure of crime--according to most literary historians, is of relatively recent origin. Early in its development, the whodunit was harshly criticized for its tightly formula-bound structure. Many critics prematurely proclaimed "the death of the whodunit" and even of detective fiction altogether. Yet today, the genre is alive, as contemporary authors have brought it into modern times through a significant integration of elaborate character development and psychology. With the modern psychological detective story emerging from the historical cauldron of detective fiction and early psychology, the genre continues to develop a complexity that reflects and guides the literary sophistication needed. This book, the first of its kind, analyzes over 150 whodunit novels and short stories across the decades, from The Moonstone to the contemporary novels that saved the genre from an ignominious death.

Mr. Fortune's Practice
Mr. Fortune's Practice

Author: H. C. Bailey

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-04-09

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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Mr. Fortune's Practice is a collection of mystery tales involving Reggie Fortune, a medically qualified detective (surgeon), who often deals with dark and dangerous cases including murderous obsession, police corruption, financial skullduggery, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Table of Contents: The Ascot tragedy The President of San Jacinto The Young Doctor The Magic Stone The Snowball Burglary The Leading Lady The Unknown Murderer